🍳 Home & Kitchen
Appliances, cookware, cleaning. Every product here was bought, used and scored by our team in the US before it made the list.
Guides and stories
Smart meat thermometers tested: which one still reaches the basement couch?
34 cooks on the smoker and in the oven, watched from a basement couch 52 feet away. One of the five never went quiet once, and that mattered more than a tenth of a degree.
Best blender for green smoothies: 5 timed on frozen fruit and kale for 50 days
Five blenders, 50 days, 213 blends and a tea strainer that doesn't lie. Only one turned frozen mango and raw kale into a drink with zero green flecks in under 50 seconds, every run.
Roborock Saros 20 review: 40 days with a $1,600 robot that climbs door sills
An old house full of door sills, a dog that sheds all year and 40 days of logging. Our repair tech tested if Roborock's flagship earns its $1,600 price.
KitchenAid Artisan 5-quart review: is the classic tilt-head still worth $380 in 2026?
Five weeks, 27 bakes, one birthday cake and a tray of Ohio buckeyes. The mixer everyone asks for at Christmas, tested in a kitchen with two small kids.
Breville Barista Express Impress review: 212 shots, one repairman and the latte math
Carol's daily drive-thru latte was costing us close to $1,500 a year. So we pulled 212 shots in 34 days on the Impress, weighed every dose we could and did the math.
Ninja SLUSHi review: 41 batches in an Ohio summer, and the sugar rule nobody reads
41 batches, one very sticky block party and a lemonade that refused to freeze. Here's what the Ninja SLUSHi is like to live with, and what to pay for it this holiday season.
Dyson V16 Piston Animal review: the strongest cordless Dyson, and its one annoying flaw
36 days, one shedding dog, a scale for the dirt. Our repair tech tested Dyson's most powerful cordless vacuum and found one flaw worth knowing before you pay $979.
Ninja Foodi DZ550 review: a month of family dinners from a 10-quart dual air fryer
Two baskets, one thermometer and 61 cooks in 29 days. Our home and kitchen tester checked if the DZ550 really puts a whole dinner on the table at once.
Ninja Swirl by CREAMi review: real soft serve at home, or a loud $350 toy?
57 pints, one granddaughter, one very full freezer. Our repair tech tested Ninja's soft serve CREAMi to see if the swirl is worth the extra money.
Thermomix TM7 review: is a $1,699 kitchen robot worth it for a busy family?
43 recipes, 38 days, two toddlers underfoot. Our home and kitchen tester lived with the Thermomix TM7 to see if $1,699 buys you time back.
Kitchen gadgets worth buying vs. a waste of money: our 30-day counter test
Eleven gadgets went on the counter. Thirty days later, four were still earning their spot. A repair technician's honest tally of what's worth buying.